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| Thursday | 9:00am |
CC2 Information |
| Information Opens - Convention Info, Handicapped
Services and Sign-ups |
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| Thursday | 9:00am |
CC2 Registration |
| Registration Opens |
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| Thursday | 9:00am |
CC2 Volunteers |
| Volunteer Desk Opens - We Need Your Help to Make The
Worldcon Run! Please Stop By and Volunteer |
|
| Thursday | 9:00am |
CC307 |
| Media Room Opens (for Press/Broadcast/Web
Representatives) |
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| Thursday | 9:30am |
CC304 |
| Green Room Opens |
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| Thursday | 10:00am |
CC101 |
| Camp Franklin Opens - Today's Theme "Getting to Know
You" - Registration |
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| Thursday | 10:00am |
CC102A |
| Open Art Projects: Beading, Lifesize Drawings, Puppet
Theater (Camp Franklin) |
| Our special activities of the morning will be creating and decorating life size drawings of ourselves, and beaded projects. We'll also be making a puppet theater to use later in the convention. Other art materials will be available. |
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| Thursday | 10:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Art |
| Artist Check-in Opens |
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| Thursday | 11:00am |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Gardner Dozois, Mike Resnick |
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| Thursday | 11:00am |
CC2 Dealers Room |
| Dealers Room Opens |
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| Thursday | 11:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Hall |
| Exhibit Hall Opens |
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| Thursday | 11:00am |
CC2 Site Select |
| Site Selection Opens |
| Site Selection is your chance to vote on the location of the 2004 World Science Fiction Convention. Stop by, pay the fee and vote. Voting ends Saturday at 6pm and the location of the 2004 Worldcon will be announced at the Sunday morning WSFS Business Meeting. |
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| Thursday | 11:00am |
CC202B |
| SIG: Friends of Bill W. |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC101 |
| Video: A Bug's Life (Camp Franklin) |
| An epic of miniature proportions. A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troop. |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC109A |
| ISAAC Interviews/Teen Lounge Opens |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC202B |
| Welcome to Philadelphia |
| Find out about the interesting museums, restaurants and places in Philadelphia from the locals. |
|
Gene Olmsted, Tom Purdom, Helen H. Thompson |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC204A |
| Teen Orientation |
| WorldCons can be confusing--start right with advice from teens who are old hands at congoing, some special speakers and lots of freebies. Lunch in Chinatown immediately following. |
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Laurie Mann, Ilyana Mansfield, Diane Turnshek |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC204B |
| Computer Security: How Secure Is Secure? |
| Learn about the cutting edge of computer security from experts in the field. |
|
Lawrence A. Clough, Donald E. Eastlake III |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
CC204C |
| Ben Franklin: Master of Science, Master of Propaganda |
| Was Ben Franklin really as wise as history reports, or was he just his own best press agent? Did he create America, or was he just a pawn of the French in the years before the French Revolution? What about his illegitimate children? His other, ahem, interesting habits? Learn the stories behind the myths, legends, and just plain salacious rumors. |
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George H. Scithers (M), Christine Valada, Lew Wolkoff |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
M3 Con Suite |
| Con Suite Opens |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
M4 Franklin B |
| Franklin Hall B Opens: Shmoozing
Areas, Gaming, Misc 24/7 Until 3pm Monday! |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
M401 |
| Ruby, Galactic Gumshoe (Radio Room) |
| A wonderfully wry, funny series from ZBS. |
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| Thursday | 12:00 noon |
M408-409 |
| Anime: Cowboy Bebop (Subtitled) |
| The year 2071AD. Driven out of their terrestrial Eden, humanity chose the stars as the final frontier. From the section-by- section collapse of the former nations, a mixed jumble of races and peoples came. They spread to the stars, taking with them the now confused concepts of freedom, violence, illegality and love, where new rules and a new generation of outlaws came into being. |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Robert J. Sawyer |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: S. M. Stirling |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Bob Eggleton |
|
| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC202B |
| How to Have Fun at a Worldcon Even if You Brought Your
Children |
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Joni Brill Dashoff, Lynn Cohen Koehler |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC204A |
| Beer in Philadelphia |
|
Lew Bryson, Brian L. Burley, Jim Mann, John Syms |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC204B |
| A Worldcon Orientation for SF Professionals |
| Finding your way through the maze of publishers, conventions, fans and more. |
|
Janice Gelb (M), David Howell, Priscilla Olson, Darrell Schweitzer, Julie Stickler |
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| Thursday | 1:00pm |
CC204C |
| How to Enjoy Your First Convention |
| An introduction to fandom by long-time fans. Bring your questions, they'll have the answers. |
|
Gay Haldeman, Rusty Hevelin |
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| Thursday | 1:30pm |
CC101 |
| Storytelling (Camp Franklin) |
|
Barbara Chepaitis |
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| Thursday | 1:30pm |
CC103C |
| Camp Franklin: Active Games/Introductions |
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| Thursday | 1:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Judith Berman |
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| Thursday | 1:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: John Costello |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC102A |
| Storytelling (Camp Franklin) |
|
Angela Klinger |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC102B |
| Creating Comics (Camp Franklin) |
| A hands on introduction to creating your own comics. |
|
Colleen Doran |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: William A. S. Sarjeant |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Mark Anthony, Carol Berg, Dawn P. Dunn, James C. Glass, Scott E. Green, J. Ardian Lee, Steven Piziks, Irene Radford |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Masq Reg |
| Masquerade Registration Opens |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC202B |
| Rediscovered Authors: Eric Frank Russell, Fredric
Brown, Henry Kuttner, & Others |
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Jack L. Chalker, Peter J. Heck, Rick Katze (M), Steve Miller, Mike Resnick |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC203A |
| Book Discussion: Dune by Frank Herbert |
|
Oz Fontecchio |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC203B |
| Introduction to the WSFS Business Meeting |
| The Worldcon Business Meeting can be a scary event for newcomers. The panel provides an introduction to why the business meeting is important and how it works. It also talks about a few items you'll probably see discussed over the course of the con if you attend. |
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Donald E. Eastlake III (M), Kevin Standlee, Ben Yalow |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC204A |
| The Yankee Confederacy and Other Untapped Alternate
Histories |
| Early in its life, the US almost split apart. But it wasn't the South that nearly left the Union; it was New England. What would have happened if it had? The panel looks at this and other unexplored alternate histories. |
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Laura Frankos, John G. Hemry, S. M. Stirling (M), Harry Turtledove |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC204B |
| Getting It Wrong: Science Goofs in Science Fiction |
| Many science fiction novels have science goofs, sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes annoying, sometimes amusing. Do such science goofs destroy the story? When do they and when don't they? How important is getting the science right? |
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Hal Clement, Stephen C. Fisher, Diane Kelly, Jeffrey D. Kooistra, Toni Weisskopf (M) |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
CC204C |
| Philadelphia in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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Gregory Frost, J. B. Post, Darrell Schweitzer, Michael Swanwick (M) |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
M4 Franklin B |
| Internet Lounge Opens |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
M401 |
| Firesign Theater: The Original Cycle (Radio Room) |
| Waiting for the Electrician, How Can You Be In Two Places At Once, Don't Crush That Dwarf, and I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus. |
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| Thursday | 2:00pm |
M690 |
| Fan Lounge Opens |
|
| Thursday | 2:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Guy H. Lillian III |
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| Thursday | 2:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Diane Turnshek |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC102A |
| Dino Hunt Game (led by Sarah Elkin and Lois Mangan) (Camp Franklin) |
| A non-violent action game about dinosaurs.
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC102B |
| Wizard Costumes (Camp Franklin) |
| Get a jump on the Million Wizard March and start working on your costume. |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Kristine C. Smith |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Wen Spencer |
|
| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC110B |
| SIG: Brotherhood without Banners (Fans of George R.
R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire) |
|
George R. R. Martin |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Connie Willis |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Edward Bryant, Clay & Susan Griffith, Matthew Hughes, Caro Soles |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC201C |
| Fannish Inquisition I: Worldcon Bidder Presentations |
|
Kim Campbell, Vince Docherty, Deborah M. Geisler, Hiroaki Inoue, Lance Ozsko, Tom Whitmore (M) |
|
| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC202B |
| The Wisest Man in the World: Ben Franklin in Fact and
Fiction |
|
Fred Lerner (M), Louise Marley, Mary Schroeder, Diana Thayer |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC203A |
| Friends and Writers |
| Friendships between writers provide the moral support of fellow professionals. It can help them in their daily struggles with the creative process, the writing life, and the business side of the profession. This is different from from the formal, more limited support writers get from writer's groups. |
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Geary Gravel, Rosemary Kirstein, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Toni Anzetti (M) |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC203B |
| Fields of Dreams: Baseball in SF and Fantasy |
|
Robert J. Gates, Shane Tourtellotte, Eric M. Van, Rick Wilber (M) |
|
| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC204A |
| Galactic Patrols and Beams of Force: the Space Opera
of Smith and Campbell |
| Many people consider E. E. Smith's Lensman books to be the greatest of the classic space operas of the thirties and forties. Others feel that John Campbell's space operas, written before he gave up writing to remake the field as Astounding's editor, deserve that honor. The panel looks at the works of these two great writers of space opera. |
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John Ashmead, Hal Clement, Simon R. Green, Yuri Mironets, Mark L. Olson (M) |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC204B |
| Space Technology: A Look Into the Next Quarter Century |
| The way we get into space and what we can do there will change considerably in the next quarter century. Single-stage-to-orbit craft, new drive technology, and zero-g manufacturing will come into their own. The panel looks the next steps in space technology. |
|
Greg Bear, Jordin T. Kare (M), Allen Steele |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC204C |
| Camera Obscura: SF and Fantasy Films You Haven't Heard
Of |
|
Daniel Kimmel (M), Mark R. Leeper, Nicki Lynch, Craig Miller |
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| Thursday | 3:00pm |
CC3 Overlook Bar |
| Literary Beer:
Derryl Murphy |
|
| Thursday | 3:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Bud Sparhawk |
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| Thursday | 3:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Sheila Finch |
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| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC102A |
| Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts (Camp Franklin) |
| Join in sharing your favorite popular children's rhymes and learn some new ones! Parents invited too. (How many versions do you know?) |
|
Josepha Sherman |
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| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John J. Kessel |
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| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC202B |
| You Don't Have to Be a Brain Surgeon |
| What are some of the current trends in brain surgery? Could stem cell research make brain surgery obsolete? What about drug therapies? A discussion of science and the science fiction of brain surgery. |
|
Jed Shumsky, Jonathon Sullivan MD, Isaac Szpindel |
|
| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC203A |
| Mobile Infantry and Space Fighters: What Makes Good
Military SF |
|
David Gerrold, John G. Hemry (M), David Sherman, S. M. Stirling |
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| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC203B |
| SF Ben Franklin Could Have Known: The Very Early
History of SF |
|
Elaine Brennan (M), Debra Doyle, Louise Marley, Charlie Petit |
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| Thursday | 4:00pm |
CC204A |
| Our Great Grandfather: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
|
Kathryn Cramer (M), Linda J. Dunn, Laura Frankos |
|
| Thursday | 4:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Frank Parker |
|
| Thursday | 4:00pm |
M407 |
| Video: Scary Movie |
|
| Thursday | 4:00pm |
M408-409 |
| Anime: Bugs Bunny Tribute |
| Different directors and their perspectives on how to direct a Bugs Bunny carton. |
|
| Thursday | 4:00pm |
M5 Grand A-F |
| Opening Ceremonies |
| What do Ben and Debby Franklin, the SFWA Musketeers, and some characters from Monty Python have to do with the Millennium Philcon? Come see and help us get the convention off with a "BONG!" (No pies will be killed during the Opening Ceremonies.) |
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Greg Bear, Mark L. Blackman, Greg Blog, Bridget Boyle, Todd Dashoff, Gardner Dozois, Esther Friesner, Becky Kaplowitz, Ira A. Kaplowitz, Elizabeth Moon, Ron Ontell, Val Ontell, Kevin P. Roche, George H. Scithers, Delia Turner, Laura Underwood, Lew Wolkoff, Stephen Youll |
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| Thursday | 4:30pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Gary D. McGath |
|
| Thursday | 4:30pm |
M401 |
| Nick Danger (Radio Room) |
| Not part of the cycle, but still a favorite. |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC101 |
| Camp Franklin Closes (Camp Franklin) |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC104A |
| Friends Don't Let Friends Run Worldcons: Worldcon
Chairs Discuss Worldcon |
|
Anthony R. Lewis, Tom Veal, Tom Whitmore (M) |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Josepha Sherman |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Christy Hardin Smith |
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| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: M. K. Fuller |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC110B |
| SIG: LexFA: Lexington, KY, Fantasy Association |
| Join us for a great free-form, multi-part conversation about whatever comes up. The scattered members of LexFA will be gathering from across the continent, some of us for the first time in years. |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Catherine Asaro, Mike Moscoe |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Fan |
| Docent Tour: Fan Exhibits |
|
Mike Resnick |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC201B |
| Evolution of Online Communities: How Did They Start?
Where Are They Going? |
|
Tom Galloway, Saul Jaffe, Wilma Meier (M), Vera Nazarian, Sharon Sbarsky |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC202B |
| H.P. Lovecraft in the 21st Century |
| He's in Penguin Classics and even in the Library of America. HPL has clearly crossed over from genre into Literature. An examination of the state of things Lovecraftian, current critical opinion, scholarship, etc., with some consideration of why Lovecraft, unlike his contemporaries, has achieved such exalted status. |
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Lillian Stewart Carl, Jael, J. B. Post (M), Darrell Schweitzer |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC203A |
| The Aging of SF: A Discussion |
| Is science fiction changing in ways that no longer appeal to a younger audience? |
|
Gregory Benford, Judith Berman, David G. Hartwell |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC203B |
| Time Machines, Alien Invasions, and Invisible Men: the
Legacy of H.G. Wells |
|
James Cambias, Craig Engler, Paul Levinson (M), Art Widner |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC204A |
| The Art of World Building: An Overview of
Worldbuilding Panels |
| Over the course of the convention, a series of panels will create a world, its ecosystem, and its inhabitants. But first we discuss the art and practice of worldbuilding. How do you go about worldbuilding? What are the ground rules? What research do you need to do? What if you know the physics but the biology is a complete mystery (or vice versa)? |
|
N. Taylor Blanchard, Hal Clement, Arlen P. Walker (M) |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC204B |
| Across the Commonwealth: The SF Renaissance in the UK,
Australia, and Canada |
| There seems to be an SF resurgence going on in the UK and in the British Commonwealth. When one talks about the major figures in SF, names like Banks, MacLeod, Baxter, Hamilton, Sawyer, McMullen, Reynolds, and others come to mind. The panel discusses SF in the English-speaking world beyond the US. |
|
Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Cory Doctorow, Paul J. McAuley, Sean McMullen, Robert J. Sawyer |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
CC204C |
| From Torturing Villains to Screaming Queens: How Does
SF/F Treat G/L/B/T Characters |
| The Spectrum Awards will be given out at the beginning of the panel discussion. How far beyond the common stereotypes have we gone with G/L/B/T characters? Is the "gay character" still just a standard stock figure? Are there places G/L/B/T characters have yet to go? Have changes in the portrayal and treatment of G/L/B/T characters in SF/F kept pace or outdistanced those in the real world? Or is the genre behind the curve? |
|
Thomas Atkinson, Lisa DuMond, Steve Pagel (M), Don Sakers, Delia Sherman |
|
| Thursday | 5:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Gary Ehrlich, Erica Neely |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Peter J. Heck |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Joe Haldeman |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: Tom Purdom |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
CC304 |
| Green Room Closes |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Benjamin Newman |
|
| Thursday | 5:30pm |
M407 |
| Video: Devil's Advocate |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC2 Dealers Room |
| Dealers Room Closes |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Art |
| Art Show/Print Shop Open |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Hall |
| Meet and Greet |
|
Greg Bear, Susan T. Casper, Gardner Dozois, Esther Friesner, George H. Scithers, Jamie S. Warren Youll, Stephen Youll |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC2 Masq Reg |
| Masquerade Registration Closes |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC2 Site Select |
| Site Selection Closes |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC201C |
| Pictionary |
| Fans play on a team with one of our Hugo Award- winning artists as players sketch visual clues to SF-related words and terms while the rest of their team tries to guess the word or term. The best fan players get to keep the sketches! |
|
Bob Eggleton, Teddy Harvia |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC202B |
| Catherine Mintz Reads New, Original Fiction by Kathy Tyers |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC203B |
| Ghost Stories vs. Serial Killers: Must Horror Be
Supernatural? |
| Does horror fiction have to be supernatural? If not, doesn't that just make it a subset of crime/suspense fiction? |
|
Craig Shaw Gardner (M), John Passarella, James Van Pelt |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC204A |
| Star Trek Aliens and Cultures |
| Star Trek has given us a number of alien cultures. Of these, the Klingons have the most passionate fans, though Romulans, Vulcans, and others have their own fans. The panel looks at Star Trek's aliens, the cultures created for them, and the fan phenomena they've generated. |
|
Kevin Geiselman, Saul Jaffe, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Lawrence Schoen, Susan Shwartz |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
CC307 |
| Media Room Closes |
|
| Thursday | 6:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Matt G. Leger |
|
| Thursday | 6:30pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Marc S. Glasser |
|
| Thursday | 7:00pm |
CC202B |
| Political Fantasy? A West Wing Discussion |
|
Robert Devney, Daniel Kimmel, Timothy E. Liebe, Terry A. McGarry, Melinda Snodgrass (M) |
|
| Thursday | 7:00pm |
CC203B |
| The Problem of Spike |
|
Keith R. A. DeCandido, Wendie Old, Susan Sizemore, Ben Yalow (M) |
|
| Thursday | 7:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Erica Neely |
|
| Thursday | 7:00pm |
M415 |
| A Parents' Guide to Gaming |
| What are the various genres of gaming all about? How do they differ and how are they similar? We will examine RPGS, LARPS, CCGs, Strategy/Tactical, Miniatures and Board Games, with special attention to parents' concerns and particularly the benefits to children to be derived from participating in these activities. |
|
Lavelle Harmon (M), Lottie Hashem, Benjamin Newman |
|
| Thursday | 7:30pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
|
Leslie Fish |
|
| Thursday | 7:45pm |
M407 |
| Video: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC109A |
| Teen Lounge Closes |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC2 Information |
| Information Closes |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC2 Registration |
| Registration Closes |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC2 Volunteers |
| Volunteer Desk Closes |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC202B |
| Poetry Jam: An Open-Mike Poetry Reading: Timons Esaias |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC203A |
| How the Masquerade Judging Works |
|
Marty Gear, Rob Himmelsbach, Sandra G. Pettinger |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC203B |
| Beyond Men in Tights: Comics without Superheroes |
| Not all comic books are about guys (or gals) in flashy underwear who fly around and catch criminals. In addition to the explorations of horror and fantasy featured in DC's Vertigo imprint, some small publishers still permit artists to expand the "underground" tradition of the '60s. Kyle Baker's "Why I Hate Saturn," "Love and Rockets," by the Hernandez brothers, Dan Clowes' "Eightball," "Strangers in Paradise" -- your local comic book store is still a haven for alternative artists and writers to tell it like it is. Come to this panel and share your ideas about your favorite Really Cool Stuff. |
|
Brenda W. Clough (M), Keith R. A. DeCandido, Daniel P. Dern, Brad W. Foster, Lawrence Watt-Evans |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC204A |
| So You Want to Win a Million (round 1) |
| Use your knowledge of SF-related topics and your lifelines to come up with the correct Final Answers and you could walk out of this item with one million Turkish Lira in your pocket. See your newspaper's exchange rate listings for just how rich you'd be! |
|
Chris Barkley |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
CC204B |
| Dialogue on Life, the Universe and Writing |
|
Lois McMaster Bujold, Lillian Stewart Carl |
|
| Thursday | 8:00pm |
M3 Con Suite |
| Con Suite "Officially" Opens - "Puppy Whelping Party" |
|
| Thursday | 9:00pm |
CC110B |
| SIG: WSFS Mark Protection Meeting - This meeting is
open to any member of the Worldcon |
|
| Thursday | 9:00pm |
CC202B |
| Trivia for Chocolate |
| So you think you know SF trivia? Put your mouth where your mouth is and win a piece of chocolate for every question you can correctly answer first. Top scorers get preference for being contestants trying to Win Tom Galloway's Money on Friday. |
|
Mark L. Olson |
|
| Thursday | 9:00pm |
CC203A |
| Ask Doctor Mom |
|
Muriel Hykes, |
|
| Thursday | 9:00pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Short Subjects |
|
| Thursday | 9:15pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Fantasia 2000 |
|
| Thursday | 9:45pm |
M407 |
| Video: Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Art |
| Art Show/Print Shop Close |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Hall |
| Exhibit Hall Closes |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
CC202B |
| Dramatic License or Mucking It Up: Movies Based on
Books |
| We've all seen the results of the shift from page to screen, and we often think it isn't pretty. Is it just Hollywood "not getting it," or is there simply enough of a difference between page and screen that change is necessary. Are we so attached to our internal imagery that nothing on the screen will ever be right? With some high-profile films based on SF/F books coming this year, maybe we need to re-examine our expectations. |
|
Ctein, Robert Devney, Sasha Miller, Keith J. Olexa, Melinda Snodgrass |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
CC203A |
| Underground Horrors: Horror Small Press |
| The (hopefully) not-so-secret world of the horror small press. The majority of horror fiction, including most of the important books and virtually the entire short story market, exists independently of traditional New York publishing. How did this state of affairs come about? Is it a good thing or the only lifeboat left floating? |
|
John Betancourt, Angela Kessler, Steve Pagel, Darrell Schweitzer (M) |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
M307 |
| Introduction to Filk |
|
Solomon Davidoff, Matt G. Leger, J. Spencer Love, Paul Shuch, David Weingart (M) |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Jazz Concert |
|
Karen Penrose, Peter Suffredin |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
M404 |
| Open Filking Opens |
|
| Thursday | 10:00pm |
Mar SFFNET Suite |
| SFF NET Suite Reading: Keith R. A. DeCandido |
|
| Thursday | 10:30pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: La Jetee |
|
| Thursday | 11:00pm |
M401 |
| Tolkien Heads - The Hobbit (Radio Room) |
|
| Thursday | 11:00pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: 12 Monkeys |
|
| Thursday | 11:30pm |
M407 |
| Video: Rocky Horror Picture Show |
|
|
| Friday | 1:00am |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Short Subjects |
|
| Friday | 1:15am |
M407 |
| Video: Mars Attacks |
|
| Friday | 1:15am |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Edward Scissorhands |
|
| Friday | 2:00am |
M690 |
| Fan Lounge Closes |
|
| Friday | 3:00am |
M407 |
| Video: Terminator 2: Judgement Day |
|
| Friday | 4:00am |
M3 Con Suite |
| Con Suite Closes |
|
| Friday | 5:30am |
M407 |
| Video: Starship Troopers |
|
| Friday | 7:30am |
M307 |
| SIG: Friends of Bill W. |
|
| Friday | 7:45am |
M407 |
| Video: The Wizard of Oz |
|
| Friday | 8:30am |
M307 |
| SIG: Weight Loss Support |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC104A |
| Unorthodox Visions in Penn's Commonwealth (Academic) |
|
James Dilbert, J. Gregory Keyes |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC110A |
| Writing Exercises |
|
Robert Nansel, Diane Turnshek (M) |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC2 Information |
| Information Opens - Convention Info, Handicapped
Services and Sign-ups |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC2 Registration |
| Registration Opens |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC2 Volunteers |
| Volunteer Desk Opens - We Need Your Help to Make The
Worldcon Run! Please Stop By and Volunteer |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
CC307 |
| Media Room Opens (for Press/Broadcast/Web
Representatives) |
|
| Friday | 9:00am |
M1 Lobby (near Gift Shop) |
| Morning Walk Through Downtown, led by Tom Becker.
Assemble by 8:55, leave by 9:05, Return 10:00 |
|
Tom Becker |
|
| Friday | 9:30am |
CC304 |
| Green Room Opens |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC101 |
| Camp Franklin Opens - Theme "Science" (Camp Franklin) |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC102A |
| Aliens Workshop (Camp Franklin) |
| Make your own alien creatures. Then let's build an adventuresome landscape for them. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC103A |
| WSFS Meeting |
| Open to all Worldcon members, the WSFS Business Meeting is where you can participate in the process of making and changing the official rules for the Hugo Awards and the selection of future Worldcons. The WSFS meetings are open to all members. Today's meeting is where we hear reports from committees, consider changes to the Standing Rules, and go through an initial round of setting debate times for amendments to the WSFS Constitution, and also where you can make nominations to the WSFS Mark Protection Committee. If there are items of business you want discussed at the main meetings later in the convention, make sure you attend today's meeting to keep the business from being dismissed from the agenda. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC104B |
| Ben Franklin: The Light of Reason and the Light of
Alchemy (Academic) |
|
J. Gregory Keyes, James Morrow |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC105A |
| Reading: Tamora Pierce |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC106A |
| Reading: James A. Stevens-Arce |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC108B |
| Coming Attractions: Bantam |
|
Anne Lesley Groell |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC109A |
| ISAAC Interviews/Teen Lounge Opens |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC110A |
| SIG: Science Fiction Poetry Association |
| This is the only organization for sf/f/h poets, both pros and fannish. Our meetings would be open to non-members. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC110B |
| SIG: Odyssey Writing Workshop Alumni Reunion |
| This is a chance for Odyssey Workshop graduates to meet and chat, and for people interested in Odyssey to come and ask questions. Completely unofficial. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Art |
| Art Show/Print Shop Open |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Hall |
| Exhibit Hall Opens |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC2 Masq Reg |
| Masquerade Registration Opens |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC2 Site Select |
| Site Selection Opens |
| Site Selection is your chance to vote on the location of the 2004 World Science Fiction Convention. Stop by, pay the fee and vote. Voting ends Saturday at 6pm and the location of the 2004 Worldcon will be announced at the Sunday morning WSFS Business Meeting. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC201C |
| Slide Show: "Big Names" A Cautionary Tale About
Fictional Trips to Well-Known Stars |
|
Hal Clement |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC202B |
| Introduction to Gripe Sessions: What We Can and Can't
Fix |
|
Todd Dashoff, Laurie Mann |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC203A |
| Our Favorite SF and Fantasy: The Young Adult
Perspective |
|
Jared Dashoff, Haitham Jendoubi, Katherine Macdonald (M), Catherine McMullen, Bryan Zubalsky |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC203B |
| Enjoying the Art Show: How to Get the Most Out of a
Worldcon Art Show |
| A Worldcon art show can be overwhelming for fans used to the art shows at regional cons. There is so much to see that you can miss a lot. The panel provides advice for enhancing your experience and talks about several items in the current art show that you just shouldn't miss. It also explains how you can bid on art, how the auction works, and how you go about buying the piece you bid for. |
|
Jane Frank, Barbara Higgins |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC204B |
| From Gethen to Earthsea: The Works of Ursula K. Le
Guin |
|
John R. Douglas (M), M. K. Fuller, Karen Haber, Mary Soon Lee, Melissa Scott |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
CC204C |
| SF Professional Organizations: SFWA and ASFA |
|
Sharon Lee (M), Teresa Patterson |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
L4 Congress A |
| SF Writing Workshop |
|
Catherine Asaro, Judith Berman, Nicholas A. DiChario, Geary Gravel, Charles Ryan |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
M406 |
| Alien Worlds (Radio Room) |
| Family audio drama from the mid-70s. |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
M407 |
| Video: Friday Morning Cartoons: Pocket Dragon Adventures |
|
| Friday | 10:00am |
M408-409 |
| Anime: Star Blazers: The Comet Empire 1-6 (G,
Dubbed) |
| Classic anime from Japan. It is the year 2201 and the galaxy is threatened by a massive warship disguised as a comet. |
|
| Friday | 10:30am |
CC105A |
| Reading: Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
| Friday | 10:30am |
CC106B |
| Reading: Jody Lynn Nye |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC104A |
| The Art of Developing Character Histories in RPGs |
| After the dice have been rolled, gamers breathe life into their creations by creating character histories. What makes for a good character history? Is a past full of tragedy important? How do the numbers you rolled affect the creation of your character's history? How much input should game masters have? Did you remember to include some hooks for your game master to tie your history to her world and the current life of your character? |
|
James Cambias, Greg Costikyan (M), Steve Jackson, Sasha Miller |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC105A |
| Reading: Michael Swanwick |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC106A |
| Reading: Stephen Chambers |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC108B |
| Baen Books Traveling Slide Show (with Door Prizes!) |
|
Toni Weisskopf |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC110A |
| Running an Artist's Digital and Class Media Studio on
a Shoestring |
|
Cortney Skinner |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Gardner Dozois, Walter Jon Williams |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC2 Dealers Room |
| Dealers Room Opens |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Auc |
| Fantiques Roadshow |
| Fantiques Roadshow is a participatory activity - all you need to do is bring along an item with some sort of SF significance (book, art, fannish item or collectible) and see if it's worth anything. The first part of Fantiques Roadshow is an informal appraisal of items at tables in the auction area. The appraisers will select a few items to bring up to the front table during the second part of the show. |
|
Jane Frank, Rusty Hevelin, Joe Siclari, Jerry Weist |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Karen Haber, Anne Harris, Stanley Schmidt, Robert Silverberg, Bud Sparhawk |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC2 Exhibit Demo |
| SF Art Demo: How to Do Covers and Illustrations
and Get the Job |
|
Joe Bergeron |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC201A |
| Space and Sensibility: SF Fans Appreciate Jane Austen |
| Jane Austen is very popular with a large segment of the SF community, and her works have influenced a number of writers. |
|
Ellen Asher, Lois McMaster Bujold, Richard Garfinkle, Amy Thomson (M),
Connie Willis |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC201B |
| Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9: A Look Back |
|
Chris Barkley, Michael A. Burstein (M), Jeanne M. Cavelos, Inge Heyer, Josepha Sherman |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC201C |
| Gernsback Continuum Revisited: Retro-visionary Future
Along Route 66 (with a Side Trip to Area 51) |
|
Ernest Lilley |
| The time in the
Pocket Program for this item is not correct. |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC202B |
| Writers Who Filk & Filkers Who Write |
|
Joe Haldeman, Larry Niven, David Weingart (M) |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC203A |
| Bucking the Corporate Fantasy Trend |
|
Lisa A. Barnett, Terry Bisson (M), Ellen Kushner |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC203B |
| Cover Art and Interior Illos: the Artists' Views |
| We often look at cover art and interior illustrations from the writer's perspective or the fan's perspective -- often complaining about what wasn't quite right. Here, the artists will discuss their take on the issue. How familiar do they feel they need to be with the work? How do they chose what in a book to illustrate for the cover? How faithful does the cover have to be -- should it be a snapshot from the book, or should it just be something that captures the feel? |
|
Jim Burns, Colleen Doran, Omar Rayyan, Michael Whelan (M) |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC204A |
| Galactic Geographic: A Guided Tour |
|
Karl Kofoed |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC204B |
| Worldbuilding 101: Creating a Planet |
|
Gregory Benford (M), Hal Clement, Yoji Kondo |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC204C |
| A World-Wide Endeavor: Science Fiction from Around the
Globe |
|
Charles N. Brown (M), Tobias Buckell, Kir Bulychev, Yuri Mironets, Vera Nazarian |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
CC3 Overlook Cafe |
| Kaffee Klatsches: Eve Ackerman, Jack L. Chalker, N. Taylor Blanchard, Julie Czerneda |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
M307 |
| Book Discussion: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov |
|
Stephen C. Fisher |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
M406 |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau (Radio Room) |
| A live production from the Atlanta Radio Theatre. |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
M407 |
| Video: Cinderella |
|
| Friday | 11:00am |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Short Subjects |
|
| Friday | 11:15am |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Chicken Run (2001 Hugo Nominee) |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
CC102A |
| Motors (Camp Franklin) |
| Build an electric motor out of simple parts.
(No taking apart the appliances when you get home!) |
|
Michael Mansfield, |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
CC102B |
| Computer Bugs with Myra (Camp Franklin) |
| Make your own computer bugs out of computer parts. All materials included. |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
CC105A |
| Reading: Jeffrey A. Carver |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
CC106A |
| Reading: Wendy Snow-Lang |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
CC106B |
| Reading: Pat Cadigan |
|
| Friday | 11:30am |
M408-409 |
| Anime: Oh! My Goddess 1-5 (PG, Subtitled/Dubbed) |
| The hilarious exploits of a college student who orders out for dinner and ends up with a goddess instead! |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC103C |
| SFWA Musketeers Swordfighting Demo |
|
Lillian Stewart Carl, Brenda W. Clough, Doranna Durgin, Esther Friesner, Rachel Hartman, John G. Hemry, Elizabeth Moon, Vera Nazarian, Madeleine E. Robins, Selina Rosen, Kristine C. Smith, Delia Turner, Laura Underwood |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC105A |
| Reading: Frederik Pohl |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC106A |
| Reading: Cecilia Dart-Thornton |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC106B |
| Reading: Delia Sherman |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC108A |
| What Makes a Good Stage Costume? How To Make a
Stunning Stage Presence |
| How it looks, how it moves, what story does it tell, and how to put your best foot forward. |
|
John F. Hertz, Elaine Mami, Pierre E. Pettinger Jr (M), Sandra G. Pettinger, Sandy Swank |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC108B |
| Win Tom Galloway's Money |
| If they're smart enough, quick enough, and lucky enough, some contestants will walk away with some of host Tom Galloway's American money. To do so, they'll have to beat first each other, and then Tom himself, at answering humorously-titled SF trivia questions. |
|
Keith R. A. DeCandido, Tom Galloway (M) |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC110A |
| SIG: Combined BWA and APA: NYU Collations |
| APA: NYU is a New York-based Amateur Press Association, now in its 28 year. |
|
Marc S. Glasser |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC110B |
| Nurturing Your Ish: The Care and Feeding of a Fanzine |
| The problems concerning a fanzine editor are very similar to those confronting an editor of a commercial magazine. Said editor must concern himself with issues such as attracting and keeping readers, attracting and keeping contributors, getting the time and money to work on an issue, the magazine's content and appearance, distribution of the zine, and I am sure dozens of others. A fanzine editor doesn't necessarily have to worry about a profit, or even breaking even. |
|
Mike Glyer (M), Guy H. Lillian III, Richard Lynch, Mike Scott, Dick Smith |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Jeffrey A. Carver, Glen Cook, Marvin Kaye, Kay Kenyon, Jeffrey D. Kooistra, George R. R. Martin, Robert J. Sawyer, Wen Spencer |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC2 Exhibit Demo |
| Fan Art Jam |
|
Brad W. Foster, Alexis Gilliland, Teddy Harvia, Sue Mason |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC201A |
| Convention Planning Primer: Convention Publications |
|
Michael R. Nelson, Sharon Sbarsky, Diana Thayer |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC201B |
| Writing for TV: A Dialog |
| Marc Zicree, author of the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode "Far Beyond the Stars," as well as episodes of The Next Generation, Babylon 5, and sliders, discusses writing for TV with movie critic Dan Kimmel. |
|
Daniel Kimmel, Marc Zicree |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC201C |
| Publishing in the 21st Century: How Has Cover Art
Changed? |
|
Bob Eggleton (M), Jamie S. Warren Youll, Michael Whelan, Paul Youll, Stephen Youll |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC202B |
| Fandom in the Fifties: WSFS Inc. and All That Jazz |
| How was fandom developing (changing? evolving?) in the Eisenhower years? Were fannish cultures and politics as stagnant as those of the mundane world? What was going on in the convention arena? |
|
Rusty Hevelin, Ray Faraday Nelson, Art Widner |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC203A |
| Another Universe: Writing Media-Based Tie-Ins |
| How does writing media tie-ins differ from writing other types of works? What are the differences between writing tie-ins that are closely tied to the source (for example, novelizations of movies) vs. novels that are related to a media series (Star Trek or Star Wars novels)? |
|
Ginjer Buchanan, Jeanne M. Cavelos, Allen Dean Foster, Craig Shaw Gardner |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC204A |
| America's Best Comics |
| Alan Moore isn't the only great comic book writer in the Western World, but many of his fans find the above imprint for his one-man comic book company is titled appropriately. Moore revolutionized comic book paradigms in the '80s with his cinema-verite graphic novels: Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Today, his Promethea series continues to stretch the envelope of what's possible in the comic book medium. But with Kurt Busiek, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and J.M. DeMatteis all busy writing, Alan has a run for his money in making the "ABC" imprint live up to its title. (Neil Gaiman may throw his hat back into the ring, someday, too!) |
|
Lenny Bailes (M), Larry Niven, James C. Shooter, Dani Zweig |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC204B |
| Punctuated Equilibrium, Hopeful Monsters, and Darwin's
Radio: How Evolution Works |
|
Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear (M), Samuel Scheiner |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
CC3 Overlook Cafe |
| Kaffee Klatsches: Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, Claire Eddy, Laura Anne Gilman |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
M3 Con Suite |
| Con Suite Opens |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
M307 |
| Book Discussion: Vanishing Acts edited by Ellen
Datlow |
|
John J. Kessel |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
M4 Franklin A |
| Pagan Concert: Music from the Goddess |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
M406 |
| The Martian Chronicles (Radio Room) |
| Five radio dramas from the early 50s, compiled by Paul Wunder and Max Schmid to emulate Bradbury's book. |
|
| Friday | 12:00 noon |
M690 |
| Fan Lounge Opens |
|
| Friday | 12:15pm |
M407 |
| Video: Destination Moon |
|
| Friday | 12:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Roger MacBride Allen |
|
| Friday | 12:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Laura Frankos |
|
| Friday | 12:30pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: Derryl Murphy |
|
| Friday | 12:30pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Short Subjects |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC101 |
| Video: Ben and Me (Camp Franklin) |
| A mouse tells his story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence. |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC102B |
| A Tour of the Solar System (Camp Franklin) |
| Join Inge Heyer on a multimedia trip through the Solar System. |
|
Inge Heyer |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC104B |
| Radical Philadelphia Visions: Benjamin Franklin and
Scott Nearing (Academic) |
|
Jesse Lemisch PhD, James Young |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Catherine Asaro |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: David Marusek |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: Scott Edelman |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC108B |
| Coming Attractions: Del Rey |
|
Steve Saffel |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing - Guests of Honor |
|
Greg Bear, Gardner Dozois, Esther Friesner, George H. Scithers, Stephen Youll |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Demo |
| Book Binding Demo |
|
Kent Brewster |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC201A |
| So You Want to Start Your Own Convention: Advice from
Experienced Conrunners |
|
Ann Cecil, Joe Siclari (M), Eric M. Van, Tom Whitmore |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC201B |
| The British Illustration Contingent: Art in the UK |
|
Paul Barnett, Jim Burns (M), Fred Gambino, Alan Lynch, Chris Moore |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC201C |
| Slide Show: Writing and Illustrating Fairy Tales |
|
Ruth Sanderson |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC202B |
| Are the Editor and Copyeditor the Writer's Enemies ...
or Best Friends? |
|
Debra Doyle, Eleanor Lang, Terry A. McGarry (M), Michelle Sagara West, Teresa Nielsen Hayden |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC203A |
| Beyond Stephen King: A Look at Contemporary Horror |
|
Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, P. C. Hodgell (M), Lawrence Watt-Evans |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC203B |
| Liberty and Other Inalienable Rights: Will Basic
Rights Change in the Future? |
|
Terence Chua, John Pomeranz (M), Christy Hardin Smith, Christine Valada |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC204A |
| An Astounding View: The Future as Seen By SF of the
'30s and '40s |
|
Roger MacBride Allen, Leah Zeldes Smith, Walter Jon Williams (M) |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC204B |
| Growing Up With Us: Children's Books We Still Love as
Adults |
| Some children's books survive the test of time in more ways than one: not only are they read by new generations of children, but they continue to be read and re-read by those same children when they grow up. The great "children's books" -- Narnia, The Hobbit, Alice, The Golden Compass, Harry Potter -- can be read and appreciated by adults as well as children. What differentiates these from the children's books we lay aside (and which disappoint us when we try to return to them as adults)? |
|
Ellen Asher, Tamora Pierce (M), Jo Walton, Andrew Wheeler, Toni Anzetti |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC204C |
| The Classics of Alternate History |
| The Sidewise Award will be presented at the start of this session. The panel discusses the classics of alternate history and discusses what makes a superior alternate history novel. What are the great novels? How well do they examine the historical turning point? Is getting the history right in an alternate history novel more important than getting the science right in a hard SF novel? |
|
Suzanne Alles Blom (M), Michael Dobson, Evelyn C. Leeper, Paul J. McAuley, Harry Turtledove |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
CC3 Overlook Cafe |
| Kaffee Klatsches: Yoji Kondo, Simon R. Green, Susan Shwartz |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
L4 Congress A |
| Creating Alien Languages: A Workshop |
| Create an alien language in only three hours. |
|
Elizabeth Barrette, Haitham Jendoubi, Stanley Schmidt (M), Lawrence Schoen |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
M411-412 |
| What God Plays In Your Universe: Music for Your Game
World |
|
Stephen Brinich, Lee Gold, Steve Jackson (M) |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
M415 |
| Campaign Basics I and II |
| "Behind the Scenes and Who Was That Masked Man?". What are the "big picture" ideas one needs to develop when creating a role-playing campaign? What can the GM do to make this fictional world come alive for the players? Build your campaign from the ground up. What can both the GM and players do to bring their characters to life? |
|
Andrew Adams, James Cambias, Shanti Fader, Keith J. Olexa (M) |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
M5 Grand G-H |
| Film: Fantasia |
|
| Friday | 1:00pm |
M690 - Fan Lounge |
| Fanzine Fandom Today |
|
Arthur Hlavaty, Hope Leibowitz, Vicki Rosenzweig, Joyce Scrivner, Robert Whitaker Sirignano
Listed twice in the Pocket Program - this is the correct time and place |
|
| Friday | 1:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Anne Harris |
|
| Friday | 1:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Rick Wilber |
|
| Friday | 1:45pm |
M407 |
| Video: Longer Than You Think -- 1950s PSFS
Worldcon Home Movie |
|
| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC102B |
| Belly Dancing (Camp Franklin) |
| Dr. Karen teaches an introduction to bellydancing. |
|
Karen Purcell |
|
| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC103C |
| Regency Dance |
|
John F. Hertz |
|
| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC104A |
| Writing SF for Young Readers |
|
Julie Czerneda (M), Robert J. Sawyer, Isaac Szpindel, James Van Pelt, Pat York |
|
| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC104B |
| Philadelphia Visions: Saints and Baseball (Academic) |
|
Jan Bogstad, Rick Wilber |
|
| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Stephen Baxter |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Melissa Scott |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: Douglas Smith |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC108B |
| Coming Attractions: Ace/Penguin/Putnam |
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Ginjer Buchanan, Anne Sowards |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: James Patrick Kelly, Sheila Williams, Connie Willis |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Art |
| Art Show Docent Tour |
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Ken Warren |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auc |
| SFWA Emergency Fund Auction |
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Peter J. Heck, Ellen Klages |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Catherine Asaro, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lillian Stewart Carl, Gregory Frost, Barry N. Malzberg, Kate Elliott, Katya Reimann, Mike Resnick, Robert Charles Wilson |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC2 Masq Reg |
| Masquerade Registration Closes |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC201A |
| We'll Put on a Show! What It Takes to Stage a
Masquerade |
| Some of the top East Coast Masquerade directors tell you all the disparate pieces that have to come together to make a con's big production (with no or little rehearsal and a pick-up cast!). |
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Jill Eastlake (M), Marty Gear, Carl Mami, Sandy Swank, Victoria Warren |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC201B |
| From Beer-Powered Rockets to Human-Powered Computers:
Strange Technological Twists in SF |
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Richard Garfinkle, Sharon Lee, Sean McMullen |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC201C |
| Slide Show |
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Don Maitz |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC202B |
| Previously in Philadelphia: the 1947 and 1953
Worldcons |
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Jay Kay Klein, E. M. Korshak, Hal Lynch, Frederik Pohl, Jack Speer (M) |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC203A |
| Godzilla Past, Present, and Future |
| Forty-seven years ago, Japan produced its entry into the giant monster genre -- Godzilla. The film has spawned numerous sequels -- some good, some not so good -- and the series itself has reinvented its own past several times. The panel looks at the past and future of Godzilla, that most durable of monsters. |
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Bob Eggleton, Kevin Geiselman, Daniel Kimmel, Jim Mann (M) |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC203B |
| Hidden Lovecraft - Mythos in Popular Culture |
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Terence Chua, Greg Costikyan, Thomas Harlan (M), Darrell Schweitzer |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC204A |
| The New Wave: A Look Back |
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George R. R. Martin, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Michael Swanwick (M) |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC204B |
| Working Together: How Artists Can Collaborate |
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Paul Youll, Stephen Youll |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC204C |
| Changing Views of the Space Program |
| How have our impressions of the space program changed over the years? The panel looks at the way we've viewed space travel from the 1940s till now, from before the first satellite to the space shuttle and the International Space Station. |
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N. Taylor Blanchard, Hal Clement (M), Yoji Kondo, Cassie Krahe, Bryan Zubalsky |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
CC3 Overlook Cafe |
| Kaffee Klatsches: Warren Lapine, Larry Lewis, Nancy Kress, Yuri Mironets |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
M307 |
| Book Discussion: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear |
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Farah Mendlesohn |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
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Joe Haldeman |
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| Friday | 2:00pm |
M690 - Fan Lounge |
| Online with Fanzine Fandom |
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Lenny Bailes, Frank Lunney, Geri Sullivan, Ted White |
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| Friday | 2:15pm |
M407 |
| Video: Inner Space |
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| Friday | 2:30pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Tony Daniel |
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| Friday | 2:30pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Shane Tourtellotte |
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| Friday | 2:30pm |
M4 Franklin A |
| Filk Concert |
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Merav Hoffman |
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| Friday | 2:30pm |
M406 |
| Brave New World (Radio Room) |
| A 1956 production from the CBS Radio Workshop narrated by Aldous Huxley, with a score by Bernard Herrmann. |
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| Friday | 2:30pm |
M408-409 |
| Anime: Cartoons by Tex Avery |
| Some of the zaniest cartoons ever made. This director is known for his fast-paced and precisely timed comical cartoons. |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC101 |
| Reading (Camp Franklin) |
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Eleanor Lang, |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC105A |
| Reading: Mary Soon Lee |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC106A |
| Reading: Nicholas A. DiChario |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC106B |
| Reading: Cecilia Tan |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC108B |
| Coming Attractions: DAW |
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Debra J. Euler |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC2 Asimov Table |
| Dealer's Room - Autographing at the Asimov's/Analog
Table: Robert J. Sawyer |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC2 Exhibit Auto |
| Autographing:
Barbara Chepaitis, Linda J. Dunn, Larry Niven, John Passarella, James C. Shooter, S. M. Stirling, Michael Swanwick |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC201A |
| Under-Plundered Mythologies: Other Sources for Fantasy
and Science Fiction |
| The Incas, the Mayas, Sub-Saharan Africa (I know that covers a lot of cultures), the West Indies, Polynesia, Iceland, and various other third-world regions have mythologies that haven't seeped very far into F/SF yet. |
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Kir Bulychev, Shanti Fader, Jane M. Lindskold (M), Mike Resnick, Josepha Sherman |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC201B |
| What Makes a Good Cult TV Show? |
| From Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf to Brimstone, Sapphire and Steel to She-Wolf of London: short-lived shows that pushed boundaries and that ended too soon. What about these shows inspired their fans? Will the availability of cult TV on video and DVD make them more cultish or less? |
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Adina Adler, Michael A. Burstein, Kimberly Ann Kindya, George R. R. Martin, Len Wein |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC201C |
| Slide Show |
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Joe Bergeron |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC202B |
| The Well-Read Fan: What Current Fanzines Should All
Well-Read Fans Be Reading? |
| The panel discusses the best current fanzines as well as some classic fanzines. |
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Brad W. Foster, Nicki Lynch, Leah Zeldes Smith (M), Teresa Nielsen Hayden |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC203A |
| As You Know, Bob: The Positives and Negatives of Info
Dumps in Writing |
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James D. Macdonald, Betsy Mitchell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Bud Sparhawk |
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| Friday | 3:00pm |
CC204A |